Name: Productivity Conf for Devs and Tech Leaders
Start: 2025-03-27T15:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-03-28T20:00:00.000Z

AI tools are changing how we design, build, and test user interfaces. This talk looks at current AI technologies that are improving the frontend development process and how to use them, including:- Using Visual Copilot to convert Figma designs into production-ready code;- Implementing AI agents for automated code writing and testing;- Real-world examples showing how AI tools can improve development speed and joy.

AI-Powered Frontend Development: Building Better UIs Faster

Steve Sewell

In this talk, we will explore how to offload work to large language models and automate away most "busy work" in order to maximize and enhance productivity on a daily basis. We will do so mainly by exploring how LLMs can callfunctions.

Maximize Productivity with AI Agents

Tejas Kumar

Building generative AI applications requires a GenAIOps mindset that takes you on a journey from model selection to prompt ideation, prototype evaluation, and app deployment. In this talk, we’ll explore the GenAIOps journey from an AI Engineer perspective and identify productivity challenges, and the tooling solutions that can mitigate these issues and help streamline their developer experience.

AI Engineer End-to-End Workflow: Productivity Challenges and Their Solutions

Nitya Narasimhan

In today's fast-paced development environment, a developer's attention is constantly in high demand. To achieve peak productivity, developers need to maintain a state of flow, seamlessly accessing the knowledge and tools required to solve complex problems. However, the reality often involves juggling multiple tools, leading to frequent context switching and reduced efficiency.This session will explore how AI-enabled tools can revolutionize your development workflow, helping you become a 10x developer. We will look into the three primary pillars of development: coding in your IDE, using collaboration tools, and researching in your browser. By integrating AI tools, you can streamline these activities, minimizing context switching and maximizing focus.Through practical demos and real-world examples, this session will show you how to harness the power of AI to handle the range of context you encounter daily, ultimately boosting your productivity and allowing you to focus on what you do best—coding. Moreover if your company has concerns regarding data security while using the typical AI tools, you don't need to worry. This workshop will specifically focus on using AI tools that run on the user's device and all of the processing happens locally, thus for large enterprises, this solves the biggest information/security challenge. Date and time: TBD. Remote via Zoom.

10X Your Developer Productivity Using Privacy-First and Local AI

Shivay Lamba

In this workshop I'll cover a repeatable process on how to spin up full stack apps in cursor. Expect to understand techniques such as using GPT to create product requirements, database schemas, roadmaps and using those in notes to generate checklists to guide app development. We will dive further in on how to fix hallucinations/ errors that occur, useful prompts to make your app look and feel modern, approaches to get every layer wired up and more! By the end expect to be able to run your own ai generated full stack app on your machine!

Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor Composer 

Mike Mikula

Cursor is a breakthrough AI integrated development environment that enables rapid prototyping via its composer agentic mode.  In this talk I'll cover how to maximize productivity with Cursor from tips and tricks to complete nearly hands off workflows. By the end of this talk you’ll understand techniques such as using modular checklists to build tests, using and indexing docs, cursor rules, when to commit, roll back strategies to reduce hallucinations and Devops scripts the active cursor LLM can write and use to keep the code honest.

How to Master Cursor for Rapid Development

In this engaging talk, we will delve into the journey of building, testing, and deploying a web app while examining the capabilities and limitations of ChatGPT in web development. Through the lens of this comprehensive process, we will explore how AI-driven development techniques can contribute to a more efficient workflow and discuss the challenges that may arise. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to effectively incorporate ChatGPT into their projects, focusing on striking the right balance between automation and manual efforts. Join us as we navigate the ever-evolving landscape of web development and investigate the role of AI in shaping our development strategies.

ChatGPT Unleashed: Revolutionizing Web Development from Idea to Deployment

Nikolay	Advolodkin

AI promises to revolutionise productivity for managers, from aiding in creative problem-solving and research to improving prioritisation and decision-making support. But can AI really help us stay unbiased? And how do we ensure its safe use without risking sensitive company data? This talk explores actionable strategies for leveraging AI tools effectively while maintaining ethical standards and safeguarding information. You'll leave with insights on whether AI can truly optimise your work and how to integrate it safely and responsibly in your managerial practices.

Can AI Truly Enhance Manager Productivity?

Vasilika Klimova

How Windsurf Breaks Through the Celling for Retrieval

Kevin Hou

AI has already changed software development. Tools like GitHub Copilot have become ubiquitous parts of the workflow of millions of developers. Like other well-known editor features (like autocomplete or tooltips), AI-in-editor increases productivity, reduces required context switching, and lets developers stay in the flow while focusing on important parts of their job. However, this was just a first step—with the rapid developments of large language models (LLMs), which have become more powerful and knowledgeable with every release and have excellent reasoning capabilities, we can do more. Nowadays, we see AI tools able to solve complex, repository-wide tasks or even generate whole applications. In the talk, I will demo some new AI tools coming from GitHub Next, such as Copilot Workspace or GitHub Spark. We will discuss emerging UX patterns, give advice on how to build your own AI tool and peek into the future of developer tools. All that while trying to answer the most important question—how to design applications using AI with humans in mind.

Building the Next Generation of AI Developer Tools

Krzysztof Cieślak

Explore the transformative power of AI in modern application development with Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. This talk will guide you through the foundational steps to leverage cutting-edge generative AI capabilities in your applications. Learn how to use Google AI Studio to build, customize, and deploy AI-powered solutions efficiently. We'll cover the core features of the Gemini API, demonstrate practical use cases, and provide actionable insights for seamless integration. Whether you're developing conversational agents, automating workflows, or delivering personalized user experiences, this session will equip you with the tools and knowledge to harness AI effectively and transform your apps for the future.

Getting Started with Gemini API: Harnessing AI in Your Apps

 Kamal Shree

We’ll explore how AI has reshaped the learning curve, expedited development, and emphasized creativity in problem-solving. You’ll leave with actionable insights on building scalable architecture, mastering the art of prompting, and having fun creating innovative, AI-enhanced solutions. Additionally, we will examine modern AI tools such as Windsurf, Cursor, Bolt, Replit, and v0, highlighting which of these I have found to be the most productive in practical use.

AI-Powered Development: From Curiosity to Creativity

Corbin Brown

GenAI is changing our life’s in different areas. In software development, it’s changing everyday. In this talk we gonna discuss how GitHub Copilot and other GenAI tools can empower the software development teams and increase productivity.

Using GenAI to Improve DevOps Workflows

Julio Arruda

In this talk, we'll to cover key features of Amazon Q Developer and demonstrate how it can enhance a developer’s workflow. The session will include live demos of:<ul><li>/dev</li><li>@workspace</li><li>Code Scan</li><li>@git and @history from Q-Cli</li></ul>I’ll also showcase real-world customer case studies to highlight the practical applications of these features.

Supercharging Your Developer Workflow with Amazon Q Developer

Vikash Agrawal 

Is communication with bugs possible? It is important to understand them because there is valuable information underlying the bugs of software, and it promises quality improvements. Let's talk about how we can analyze reported issues to improve the future of the product by means of Artificial Intelligence.

Can Machines Learn Bug Language?

Mesut Durukal

Think being an IC limits your impact? Think again. In this talk, we’ll explore Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE)—a growing field that’s all about making developers happier and helping them ship better software faster. This session will introduce the foundational principles of DPE, explore the SPACE framework, and teach you how to apply your engineering skills beyond just code. Expect to navigate through real-world case studies and gain insights from personal experiences. This session is your guide to leveling up your influence while staying true to the IC path.

Leveraging Developer Productivity Engineering Practices for Greater Impact as an IC

Mikhail Levchenko

Imagine replacing yourself with a multi-agent AI programmer to develop your production web application. That's exactly what we did at my startup takzyli.pl. To achieve this, we designed and used the Clean Coder - AI agent framework for autonomous code writing (https://github.com/GregorD1A1/Clean-Coder-AI), which is hopefully open-source project. If it worked for us, why shouldn't it work for you?In this workshop, I'll show you how to create an entire web application in an (almost) autonomous way and drastically reduce the time you or your employees spend on writing code.

How to Create a Web Application in an (Almost) Autonomous Way Using Clean Coder

Grigorij Dudnik

Do you feel overwhelmed by complex note-taking systems or frustrated by the endless search for the "perfect" app? In this talk, I'll show you how to create a personalized notes system that works for *you*, helping you organize your thoughts, manage your work, and focus on what really matters—whether you're coding, studying, or planning your next creative project.

Notes System That Will Let You Thrive: Craft Your Own Path to Productivity

Joanna Otmianowska

You have a task, and you have technical documentation, but you are limited in time. Let's create a magic pill for your project!During this workshop, you will learn how to:- Use ChatGPT at its maximum- Generate prompt, using feedough- Analyse requirements and build a map coverage for test cases

Working In a Team Without a QA Engineer - Cover the Feature With Tests and Test It Ourselves

Olga Trofimova

"Test, Code, Repeat: Master AI-Assisted Development" introduces developers to a transformative way of coding with AI as a collaborative partner. This workshop focuses on how iterative workflows, such as the ping pong pairing technique, enable an enhanced interaction between human creativity and AI efficiency.

Test, Code, Repeat: Mastering AI-Assisted Development

Marco Pierobon

This talk demonstrates how developers can get the most out of AI coding assistants by effectively managing the context they provide. Through practical examples with three popular assistants—Aider, Cursor, and Windsurf—I’ll show how to configure global and local context, manage it in real-time, and overcome common limitations. Attendees will also learn how to extend the assistants’ capabilities with a centralized knowledge service to maximize their productivity and accelerate software delivery.

Managing Context in AI Coding Assistants: Achieve Better Results with Fewer Hallucinations

Tim Kitchens

As a Senior QA Engineer with over a decade of experience in testing and process optimization, I understand the critical importance of precise, well-structured technical documentation in driving successful projects. From test case repositories and product specifications to API references and comprehensive user manuals, the quality of documentation directly impacts team efficiency, product usability, and client satisfaction.In this talk, I’ll unpack how AI-powered tools like ChatGPT, Atlassian Intelligence, and GitHub Copilot are transforming the landscape of technical documentation. We’ll focus on how Large Language Models (LLMs) enable the rapid creation of standardized, accessible content across diverse formats.

Revolutionizing Technical Documentation with AI

Vitali Shchur

AI-driven code review tools are transforming the development lifecycle by automating repetitive checks and highlighting code smells. This session will explore how AI reduces manual effort, improves detection accuracy, and enhances the overall quality of code.

How AI Can Automate 70% of Code Review: Reducing Burden and Improving Code Quality

Manasa Hari

Most organizations have already taken strides to improve developer experience, streamlining workflows and adopting modern tooling. Yet many still grapple with operational blind spots, security risks, and escalating costs. In this forward-looking session, we explore how to move beyond a narrow focus on developer satisfaction and integrate core pillars of engineering excellence—security, reliability, efficiency, and velocity—into every facet of the development process. Building on the foundation of your existing DevX successes, we’ll dive into practical strategies for enforcing production-ready standards, automating security checks, and optimizing performance without sacrificing developer autonomy. Learn how to evolve your DevX efforts into a holistic approach that not only keeps your teams happy and productive, but also ensures that your software remains stable, cost-effective, and ready for the future. Join us to discover how to write the next chapter in developer productivity—one that truly balances experience with excellence.

The Next Chapter of Dev Productivity: Aligning Experience with Excellence

Jeff Schnitter

We gather industry brightest minds to discuss the best strategies and tools for building personal productivity and scaling your operations in a tech-forward era. Learn from practical workshops, early adopter case studies and network with like-minded professionals. This year Remote format, covering a wide ranging of growing solutions industry. Next year we meet for in-person Productivity Fair in Amsterdam.

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